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How to Avoid Cloud Vendor Lock-In: A Practical Guide for 2026
How to avoid cloud vendor lock-in: eight practices for portable compute, identity, data, networking, and tooling, plus exit terms and a self-check.
Noah Grinstein18 min read
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Cloud-native engineering, multi-cloud strategy, and platform deep-dives.
The 9 Best Kubernetes Alternatives in 2026
The 9 best Kubernetes alternatives in 2026, compared: run containers in production without operating clusters, on one cloud or across regions and clouds.
Noah Grinstein17 min read
How to Build Active-Active High Availability Across Regions and Clouds
How to build multi-region active-active high availability: global routing, compute in every location, replicated data, automatic failover, and testing.
Noah Grinstein20 min read
What Infrastructure Do You Need to Run an Inference Layer? A Production Guide
What a production inference layer needs: GPUs, serving runtimes, autoscaling, routing, weights, observability, and how to keep it up across providers.
Noah Grinstein19 min read
What Happens to Your App When us-east-1 Fails? Watch It Live on October 20
One year after the AWS us-east-1 outage, we recreate it live on Oct 20 and show how active-active apps stay up. Free webinar, 11 AM PT. Register now.
Noah Grinstein2 min read
How to Add a Neocloud to AWS or GCP Without Running a Second Stack
How to choose and add a neocloud like CoreWeave, Lambda, or Nebius to AWS or GCP: six criteria, published pricing, and how to avoid running a second stack.
Noah Grinstein17 min read
How to Move Off a Single Cloud Provider Without Re-Architecting Your Apps
Leave a single hyperscaler without a rewrite: run your existing containers on more than one provider, keep the services worth it, and stay up when one fails.
Noah Grinstein13 min read
AWS Outage One Year Later: Lessons From Every Cloud Failure
A year after the October 2025 AWS us-east-1 outage, every major cloud has failed differently. The three blast radii, and how to stay up when others are down.
Noah Grinstein14 min read
How to Combine GPU Capacity Across Providers
Three ways to pool GPUs from hyperscalers, neoclouds, and your own servers, with a blueprint for inference that keeps serving when a GPU pool goes down.
Noah Grinstein11 min read
What Is High Availability? How It Works and How Many Nines You Actually Need
What high availability means, how it works, what each nine of uptime allows, and how to choose the right target for your workloads based on downtime cost.
Noah Grinstein15 min read
